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AIBU?

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Carpet runner. Diagram included!

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Elsalvador · 15/05/2022 15:03

So DP cannot agree on this.

We are replacing our old and wrecked carpets. We'll have plain carpets in the bedrooms and upstairs hallway and landing. Stair runner will be in a complementary colour but striped to better hide dirt and marks given it's a high traffic area.

DP and I can't agree on the square landing bit (see question mark in the diagram). I and the carpet shop see this as an extension of the hallway so it should be in the plain carpet. So looking down the hallway, it's one continuation of plain carpet.

DP believes the landing should be an extension of the stair runner. So looking at it from the hallway or the adjoining room, it will be plain down to the three steps then abruptly turn into stripes. I don't think this makes aesthetic sense.

So we're turning to the Mumsnet jury to see what you think! I can only find pictures on the internet where the landing and hallway carpet matches and the stair runner starts from the first tread. However, would love to hear if others have done as DP suggests and it looks good/makes sense.

Sorry to be so dull but we need to find a resolution to carpetgate so we can make a decision. Can't live with the old carpet anymore!

AIBU = landing should be striped to match stair runner
AINBU = landing and hallway carpet should match

Thank you!

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Elsalvador · 15/05/2022 15:05

Sorry forgot to add the diagram! Now attached. Sorry I'm rubbish at drawing!

Carpet runner. Diagram included!
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User65412 · 15/05/2022 15:07

Plain! The join will be better hidden as well then.

Shelby2010 · 15/05/2022 15:07

Plain

BrioNotBiro · 15/05/2022 15:11

Plain, because your eye will read all the 'straight' area as one. Then it turns and becomes another area, so that can be done differently in stripes.

ElenaSt · 15/05/2022 15:17

Plain.

EinsteinaGogo · 15/05/2022 15:47

We went for striped on the landing, into a runner on the stairs.

DeanStockwelllsBunny · 15/05/2022 16:03

If the stripes will run in the same direction as the ones on the stairs and follow smoothly with no problems with the width I go with stripped carpet , but if there is even a slight issues I would go with plain as any misalignment would really bug me .

DramaAlpaca · 15/05/2022 16:09

Whichever way you do it, striped or plain, all areas need to match. It'll look messy otherwise

Notanotherwindow · 15/05/2022 16:18

If you stripe the landing, it has to go the same direction as the stairs, it can't run the other way.

Your stairs will really decide on the landing though. Do they have a lip or are the just a flat right angle? If they have a lip then you can have them different from the landing but if they don't then the runner will have to extend a few inches onto the landing and be secured by a bar.

A runner would normally be either attached to the landing piece so that you get the first drop out if the landing cut or pinned under the lip but if it doesn't have one then you either need the bar or do landing the same.

eleanoreleanoreleanor · 15/05/2022 16:47

Plain but I would probably do it all plain and matching, we had striped before when we moved in, which went round a corner and the stripes couldn't line up because of the corner, it looks much better plain. We got mottled rather than one colour only and it hides lots of muck.

Elsalvador · 15/05/2022 16:51

Thanks everyone.

@Notanotherwindow we have a lip but not enough of one. The carpet shop has suggested we get a carpenter to create a deeper lip. If we don't, then we either need to have the landing in stripes (which I worry will look odd) or, as you say, a bar. We'll need to Google some pics of this to see how this might look. Thanks for pointing out the bar option.

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DDivaStar · 15/05/2022 16:55

Definitely plain.

You have landing, 3 steps and landing. Then the stairs are a different area.

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